Thursday, January 15, 2009

CUMBERLAND — The Department of Veterans Affairs offers an assortment of programs that can relieve the costs of health care or provide care at no cost to veterans struggling financially due to a job loss or decreased income.

Veterans whose previous income was ruled too high for VA health care may be able to enter the VA system based upon a hardship if their current year’s income is projected to fall below federal income thresholds due to a job loss, separation from service or some other financial setback.

Veterans determined eligible due to hardship can avoid co-pays applied to higher-income veterans. Qualifying veterans may be eligible for enrollment and receive health care at no cost.

Also eligible for no-cost VA care are most veterans who recently returned from a combat zone. They are entitled to five years of free VA care. The five-year clock begins with their discharge from the military, not their departure from the combat zone.

For information about VA health care eligibility and enrollment, call the Enrollment Center for the VA Maryland Health Care System weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at (800) 463-6295, ext. 7324 or log on to www.va.gov/healtheligibility.

About Me

A disabled Army veteran who cares about his country, served in the military during the Vietnam Era, and Gulf War One. A "normal" man with a family and grandchildren who just wants a better nation for them, and for our nation to keep the "PROMISE" they made when we entered the military to care for us and our families if we were injured or killed on active duty.
I am 100% schedular for PTSD
I am 100% schedular for Coronary heart Disease
I am 10% service connected for hypertension